Happy Easter!

What a happy day! SO many things to be thankful for this Easter. We started the day with an Easter basket blessing at our church, as we do every year. It is our tradition to color the eggs, make the baskets as pretty as possible with different decorations and take it full of food (for next day breakfast) to the church for a special blessing. This year i had a help from babcia and babcia really knows how to decorate and make everything pretty. She did such a fabulous job on the baskets, even saw in the bows so they don't come apart. She picked up fresh flowers and decorated the baskets with them. I think we had the prettiest baskets in church :) The kids did great in the church because it was a quick service. Leah didn't even get up from the altar :) After the church, we came home for a quick lunch (barszcz prepared by babcia) and off we went to a park with kids to take some pictures with their Easter baskets. When we came back from the park, it was time to go to the annual neighborhood Easter Egg hunt and it was fun as always! Leah went after one egg with her age group, but she was just content with one egg in hand and she desperately wanted to eat what was inside (Iza helped Leah get more eggs so she ended up with more than enough in her basket. Noah was in the 2/3 year old group this year and he wanted to take off even before they said , "GO". He was up on the hill and moved rather quickly from place to place. He filled up his basket completely and we were so impressed with him!

On Easter Sunday, we woke up to the wonderful smell in the house from babcia's cooking. The kids found their Easter bunny gifts and then we had a family breakfast together. Leah loved the soup my mom made and Noah did too. We had a freshly made vegetable salad, ham, eggs, and two kinds of soups. Everything was delicious! After our breakfast we went over to our neighbors for some more Easter egg hunt. As always Noah had so much fun with his friends Izabella, Thalia and Sean. Leah was also very content and didn't need much supervision. She just watched the other kids and played quietly on the floor while we ate Polish cakes and drank coffees (i drank tea since I am no longer drinking coffee). We had a great time. We came back from Ania's and it was almost the time to go to a church. We went to a Polish church in Lawrenceville (almost an hour away from our house) but it was a very long Mass today (two hours) and the kids were getting very antsy, just to say a little bit :) We had to constantly chase them and keep them quiet, which was almost impossible because Miss Leah acted like she was high on sugar (she probably was :). Anyways, I am very glad we visited the church and attended a ceremony. We had a full weekend of Easter activities! It was truly a happy weekend and we are so blessed. Happy Easter!

Kids at the church with their baskets.

Noah already eating kielbasa :)

Looking for something else.


Noah and Iza.


Bible reading.

The Priest blessing our baskets.


Soo cute!

Leah's basket.

Noah's basket.

In the park...













Good times :)






Love this one.



Noah at our annual Easter egg hunt in our neighbors house.

Leah having a separations anxiety b/c mommy had to step back to take a picture :)

My back-lit beauty.


Leah Easter hunting for the first time :)

Checking out her egg...


"Ok forget about hunting, I already have an egg to eat".


Noah on the GO!



Not a minute to waste.






Leah checking out Noah's eggs.

Play time.

Love it.


Climbing the trampoline. Leah loves the trampolines, although she can't jump yet, she just likes to walk on it (she never really walks on ours because when Noah sees her, he starts jumping and just keep knocking her down). Maybe next year Leah!!!